Midi files on webpages SUCK.

I surf the web alot. I think one of the best ways to get me to dislike your webpage is to put some damn midi file on it so that it would play whenever someone hits your page.

Personally, I hate midi-accompanied webpages. There's a good reason for it. I LIKE LISTENING TO MY OWN MUSIC. I'm usually listening to some song in mp3 format on my computer whenever I'm sitting in front of it. Unfortunately, it really pisses me off when I'm forced to cringe at just how shitty everything suddenly sounds when my currently-playing mp3 song is suddenly interrupted with an accompaniment of some random midi song. The sounds I tend to hear from the merging of midi and mp3 usually remind me of the time I accidentally sat on my own balls. It makes me wanna cry or at least wince in pain.

While I'm surfing the web, I usually do other things while I wait for a page to load up. When I click on a page and it doesn't load up immediately, I'd just put my IE (Internet Explorer) in the background and do something else until it loads. I have a short attention span or get caught up with whatever I'm doing at the moment that I sometimes forget about having put my IE program in the background. I'm sure that's happened to you. And what happens when that happens, when you load up a midi-accompanied page and forget about it loading up in the background? Everyone knows. When those fucking midis are finally loaded up and kick in, if they start off suddenly, they scare the living shit outta you! Congratulations, you just scared the shit outta someone with your midi...a midi you put on your page because you most likely enjoy said song and want other people to listen to and enjoy it as well like yourself. If you scare me when I visit your page, even if it's unintentional, you just made a very bad impression on me with your page.

I'm a repeat visitor. If I like your page, I will visit it over and over again. You're probably a repeat visitor, especially with my page. Actually, you have to be a repeat visitor to be reading this rant. I mean how the hell do you accidentally stumble upon this rant anyway? Now, I don't know how much it bothers you, but it sure bothers me if I hafta visit midi-accompany pages over and over again and hear the same shitty midi song over and over again. Some people like that synthesized sound you get in midi songs. I don't. Sure, there are sound cards that make your midi songs sound very realistic and such, but I have a shitty sound card and all midi music sound like crap on my computer. Of course, YOU didn't know that, that midi sound like shit on my computer so I guess it's my fault for having a shitty sound card. And if I had a dial-up connection where it usually takes time to load up that I'm forced to put my IE in the background since the page won't load up immediately, I guess it's my fault as well, huh?

After I visit a page, I usually leave my IE on that page when I'm done with it. I like keeping at least one IE window open at all times. I don't have THAT fast a computer and I hate waiting for it to load up every time it need it which is why I leave one open all the time. Because I leave my IE open after being done with a page, it means I hafta go to some other webpage, be it random or not, just to get outta your page to keep from hearing the midi song you have on it. That's an extra action you're making me do for when I'm done checking your page. That's not good if you want me to like your page and expect me to revisit. Okay, some people put a volume control on their page that allows us to basically mute the midi playing. That's even worse because you're making me do two actions. You're making me actively look for your midi player on your page as well as making me mute the volume. Yes, most of the time I hafta look for the midi player because people usually put them on the bottom of their webpages. Anyway, that's two actions, which I dislike even more. Heck, with some pages, they don't give you the option of a control panel for the midi song playing and I'm forced to control the sound panel of my sound card to mute it just so I can continue to listen to mp3 music I want to listen to. You know how I avoid having to do these actions? I simply don't visit your page anymore. I guess my visiting your page will be my loss. Oh well. It doesn't bother you that it's my fault I dislike midi-accompanied pages. It doesn't bother me that it doesn't bother you. I guess we all win in the end. The only difference is that you're out one potential repeat visitor.

If I hear the same midi song once a day, it annoys the hell outta me. That's usually why, if I manage to get past my animosity of midi-accompanied pages and like your page enough to become a repeat visitor, I would definitely have problems hearing that same song over and over again. This is because not everyone likes the midi song you use. There's a chance I not only dislike the song you use, but there's also the fact I dislike midi format in general. That means there's a chance I doubly dislike your song and hafta stomach it every time I visit your page. I'm sure I speak the truth when I say that, with repeat visits, hearing that midi song every time you visit a page gets old REALLY fast. Of course, if you don't want repeat visitors, I guess that don't really matter then.

Lots of people have come to realize I have a pattern in when I update my page. It's usually around the same time, 12AM EST. I think I created some kind of Pavlovian Response I had unwittingly created with these people. Once they associated a certain time with my usually updating, they got used to it. Moving on along, I'm sure lots of people who are aware of this have actually waited on my page around that time hitting the refresh button every few minutes. Man, imagine I had a midi song on my page? Imagine your hitting the refresh button means you have to hear the song from the beginning every time. I get annoyed hearing the same song once a day. I wonder how annoying it would get to these people who would probably hear it several times while they await an expected update.

I don't put midi songs on my page because I want people to like my page. Having a midi song play after the page loads up DOES NOT help in getting people to like it any more. It's detrimental to your page in my opinion.

If I don't like midi, then why don't I just leave the midi volume on my sound card on mute? I never said I dislike midi. I play piano and I've used midi songs to print up the sheet music to learn said songs that I like. I just don't like midi-accompanied webpages and find it stupid to hafta always adjust the midi volume control to weed out such pages and make them more tolerable.

I have nothing against the people who do this with their webpages. I'm just pointing out that putting midi songs on your webpage that plays automatically will make me not visit you. I think your having midi songs on your page suck. It doesn't mean YOUR page sucks. It doesn't mean YOU suck. I'm just mentioning that that aspect of webpages suck from my point of view.

Sure, some of you people don't care whether or not people enjoy your page or not. Well, like I said, if it doesn't bother you and it doesn't bother me that it doesn't bother you, I guess we all win. But if you want people like me to visit your page, it's best to remove those damn midi songs you have on it.

Then again, for all we know, maybe you put midi songs on your page specifically to ward off assholes like myself and it's working so I guess you're the one laughing at the end.

If that's the case, man, you sure showed me.

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